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| A. It was impossible for me to have done it because I had been away
from Berlin for 6 months by then, but I have discovered this is a new edition,
such as was often prepared. |
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| TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT WURSTER |
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EXTRACTS FROM TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT CARL
WURSTER¹ |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. WAGNER (counsel for defendant Wurster) : I now come to the trip
where you accompanied Dr. Pohland to inspect some chemical plants in Poland.
How did it come about that you accompanied Dr. Pohland there?
DEFENDANT
WURSTER: I was asked by Dr. Pohland, who was an Oberregierungsrat in the Reich
Office for Economic Development as expert for inorganic chemistry, to accompany
him on an inspection tour of chemical factories in Poland as a technical
adviser. He came to me because he knew me through some conferences on sulfuric
acid which we attended.
Q. Did you accompany Dr. Pohland in your
capacity as a representative of Farben interests?
A. No.
Q. Was
your trip in any way connected with safeguarding Farben interests?
A.
No. Not at all.
Q. Are you aware, Dr. Wurster, whether representatives
of other branches of industry accompanied Reich officials on such inspection
trips?
A. Yes. I know, for example, about representatives of the Solvay
and the Kernstoff combines, and the Metallgesellschaft, just to give a few
examples.
Q. Dr. Wurster, there is a draft of a report on this trip
which you sent to Dr. Buergin several weeks later. This report is contained in
NI-1149, Prosecution Exhibit 1134², book 55,
English page 34, German page 54.
A. Yes.
Q. Since this exhibit
is only a draft, did you ever send a final report to the authorities on whose
behalf Dr. Pohland made the trip?
A. As far as I can remember, I think
that is impossible. For one thing, I would not have been making a draft weeks
after my return from this short trip, which I expressly called a draft in my
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¹ Further extracts are
reproduced earlier in sections VII H 4e and I 7g, volume VII,
this series.
² Reproduced in part in 2 above.
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